EuroLex/Envelope

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  • Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: enveloppe - 1. reference; 2. envelope; 3. pay/wage packet; 4. husk, paring


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish enveloppe ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Dutch envelop ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
English envelope 18c 'meaning 2, 4;

and also: a) the coma of a comet; b) mathematics: A curve or surface that is tangent to every one of a family of curves or surfaces; c) radio: (of a modulated carrier wave) a curve connecting the peaks of a graph of the instantaneous value of the electric or magnetic component of the carrier wave as a function of time'

'...' http://www.etymonline.com
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German Enveloppe ... 'mathematics: A curve or surface that is tangent to every one of a family of curves or surfaces' 'meaning 2' http://www.langenscheidt.de/fremdwb/fremdwb.html
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese envelope ... 'meaning 2' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...

Annotations[edit | edit source]

Etymology: from F enveloppe, a back-formation of envelopper "to envelop", from OF envoluper, from en- "in" + voloper "wrap up", of uncertain origin, perhaps Celtic

Source: http://www.etymonline.com


Information on Other Languages[edit | edit source]

meaning 2:

Czech: obálka

Danish: konvolut; kuvert

Estonian: ümbrik

Finnish: kirjekuori

Hungarian: (levél)boríték

Italian: busta

Latvian: aploksne; apvalks

Lithuanian: vokas

Norwegian: konvolutt

Polish: koperta

Slovak: obálka

Slovenian: kuverta

Spanish: sobre

Swedish: kuvert